Navan Fort

Flint tools and shards of pottery show activity at the site in the Neolithic (c. 4000 to 2500 BC). In the eighth century BC (Bronze Age), a ring of timber poles was raised at the western site, where the high mound now stands. It was 35m in diameter and surrounded by a ring ditch with an eastern entrance. The structure was rebuilt several times over the following centuries. The building had a western entrance, toward the setting sun, which suggests it was not a dwelling. A ditch and bank were dug around it. There is evidence that the huge ditch and bank that encircles the hill was dug at about the same time. Not long after it was built, the building was filled with thousands of stones, to a…

Navan Fort, sometimes called Navan Rath, is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Navan. It is on a low hill about 1.6 mi west of Armagh (at grid ref. area H847 452). The site consists of a circular enclosure 250 m in diameter, marked by a large bank and ditch encircling the hill. The ditch is on the inside, suggesting the earthwork was symbolic rather than defensive. Inside the enclosure two monuments are visible. North-west of centre is an earthen mound 40 m in diameter and 6 m high. South-east of centre is the circular impression of a ring-barrow, about 30 m in diameter.

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